I believe you can use Gmail space as online storage, but am unsure how to acheive this using Linux

I have done some rooting around on the web, but instructions seem to be quite a few years old and I read somewhere that Google has changed something (see how technical am!!) which makes older techniques not work now - Gspace, PhpGmailDrive, G-Share etc

I did try to put a php file on my web-host space which should have given me access to my Gmail account, but it did not work or at least I could not get it to work, perhaps because I do not fully understand how to link a database on my webserver to a php file (?)

is there an up to date step-by-step guide that I can follow anywhere?

Last edited by banjoman on Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

thanks for the advice, what makes Gmail rather appealing is that you can get over 7GB free rather than just 2GB - I use Drop Box and Ubuntu One already, just looked up SpiderOak which I had not come across before, that seems a good service

banjoman wrote:I believe you can use Gmail space as online storage, but am unsure how to acheive this using Linux

That used to be a big story on the boards, using Google mail as online storage directly, that via an ftp or other application service on your own local OS --I am thinking, what is the largest email package that you can send, just include your data in that, or possibly use the folders feature on Gmail to arrange your uploaded data

Then the only question is do you trust Google or faceboot or twitter type of services to protect your data, verses a company that says that is their business modelInternet cloud storage services..

Strange, what architecture are you using? I'm on 64 bit, maybe you can't see it because you are using 32 bit.

Well what you can do is download the rpm file from http://glidesociety.com/downloads.html and convert it into a deb file using alien, the deb file from that download page is very experimental and doesn't work on Mint.

I have abandoned trying to use Gmail as online storageI find Glide a bit 'clunky' and couldn't get the Glide Apps to work on my computer - shame, 'cos 30GB of free sychronisation/storage is definitely worth grabbing - I'll keep this on the back burnerI've got 5GB free with BoxI have subscribed to Ubuntu One - very good value, this will keep crucial folders on my Linux laptop in synch with my wife's Windows laptop and all backed up online